The document discusses how the internet is enabling plagiarism through easy access to information online. It defines different types of copycats and explains what behaviors constitute plagiarism. While copying can help spread ideas, the document notes it can also stifle innovation if students directly copy content without citation. It provides reasons for student plagiarism and surveys that show many students admit to copying content online. Ways to reduce plagiarism discussed include using plagiarism detection software, developing student research skills, and making rules clear.

1. INTERNET IS PRODUCING COPYCATS
PYRAMID COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
AND TECHNOLOGY
Presented By: Students of MBA 2ndSemester
1)Harpreet Singh 2)Vishali Sharma
1734736 1734787

2. CONTENTS
Copycats
Are copycats different from others?
Types of copycats
What is included in plagiarism?
Reasons why students plagiarize?
How the internet affects plagiarism?
Copying kills innovation & creativity
Copying isn’t always bad
Should I start a copycat business?
Survey
Concentration of copycats
Ways to control
Conclusion

3. COPYCATS
Copycat may refer to a person who adopts, copies, imitates, mimics, or
follows same thing as someone, as a child who adopts the behaviour, style
or does exactly the same as another child.
It is also termed as plagiarism.
Involves using other’s work without taking his/her permission or giving
credit.

4. ARE COPYCATS DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS?
Innovation requires taking risks and diving in often without knowing how
your target market may react while coping can bring in great results by
simply following an already successful recipe.
An old educational joke says that if someone copies from one book, that’s
plagiarism but if someone consults two or more books, then it is called
research.

5. TYPES OF COPYCATS
Copycats are mainly categorised into 2 types:
Foolish
copycats
Smart
copycats

6. WHAT IS INCLUDED IN PLAGIARISM?
 Copying text or data
 Summarising or paraphrasing
 Submitting some else’s work as your own
 Basing your work on someone else’s ideas
 Mosaic
 Self-plagiarism
 Collusion
 Citing articles which you have not read
 Not linking references to precise points in the text
 Not clearly identifying your sources according to conventions

7. REASONS WHY STUDENTS PLAGIARIZE?
Time Management
Weak English Language Skills
Design of Assessments
Educational Background
New Learning Culture
Few Research, Study and Thinking Skills

8. HOW THE INTERNET AFFECTS PLAGIARISM
o Plagiarism is nothing new. Students have been plagiarizing far before the
Internet was widely available -- whether it was copying from the
encyclopaedia or hiring professionals.
oThe Internet and the explosion of online resources has made it easier for
students to get to those resources.
o Plagiarism is going social.
o Legitimate educational sites are more popular than cheat sites.
oBenefit from academic dishonesty.
o Wikipedia is the most popular site for matched content.

9. COPYING KILLS INNOVATION $ CREATIVITY
However, as copying and pasting is so easy and quick many students do
this but skip the tedious and time-consuming task of writing or typing
sources into their document.
It is one thing to look at good practice on the internet… but it is another
thing to then lift the material.
Studies have shown that 30,000 candidates copied phrases directly from
the internet into their personal statement.
Half of university students prepare to submit essays just by copying from
internet.

10. COPYING ISN’T ALWAYS BAD!
It helps in raising awareness at global level such as ALS Ice bucket challenge.
o It had over 2.4 million posts on Facebook and 28 million people uploaded,
commented on or liked ice bucket-related posts.
oOn Instagram 3.7 million videos uploaded with the hashtags
#ALSicebucketchallenge and #icebucketchallenge.
o As a result from 29 July to 28 August this year ALS received $98.2m -
compared with $2.7m donated during the same period last year.

11. SHOULD I START A COPYCAT BUSINESS?
• Google Cloud, Apple iCloud, and Dropbox are imitating one another while
the smartphone industry is over-saturated with copycats. As an
entrepreneur, you need to decide whether you want to innovate or take
after a business model that can be copied lawfully.
• Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it’s rarely the best path
to becoming a leader in your industry.
• Well-established businesses are often commanding a big chunk of the
market already, which makes it difficult for copycats to break through.

12. SURVEY
160 students surveyed in Pennsylvania schools during 2004-2005 school
year:
 35% “directly copied and pasted material into an assignments, without
citation”.
46% of those “considered it plagiarism or cheating”.

13. CONCENTRATION OF COPYCAT

14. WAYS TO CONTROL
Develop a good academic work plan.
To use internet as an option not instead of your brain.
Guide them without collaborating.
Teacher should be able to detect copied contents.
Help students at early age to organize and plan their work, as to
be panic at last minute can cause problems.
Tell importance of self writing.

15. WAYS TO CONTROL
Anti-plagiarism or detection software should be launched in
institutions like:
 Copy Catch Gold from copycatchgold.com
 Eve2 from canexus
It’s the first step for students to submit their own work not to
label them as plagiarist.
Talk about plagiarism
Make the rules known
Give unique tasks

16. CONCLUSION
Copying raises awareness on a global level.
Being a copy cat is good to some extent if it is just for seeking information
or raising your knowledge but it can also spoil your creative abilities.
In computer science:
If someone copied an app’s coding to register the app with his own name
having same features. It is not only copying rather it is stealing.
But if he/she copied the code for just making better app then that or adding
advanced features, or whatever he/she did for making it more attractive then
this type of coping is good.